Emma Dillon

As an Economist and Senior Research Officer with the National Farm Survey, Emma has a multi-faceted role in terms of survey design, data analysis and reporting of key trends in contemporary Irish agriculture.  Primarily through policy modelling at the farm level, research areas of interest include measuring sustainability for policy monitoring and evaluation, and structural change on Irish farms.  She has been involved in the development of social sustainability metrics, both internal (to the farmer) and external (for broader society) in the NFS over the past decade.  These metrics are now being further developed through the MEASURE and GENFARMS projects, recently funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.